YOU can change the world through fundraising
It gets worse. You live on credit, because you can’t save on your tiny nonprofit salary. Your boss expects you to dress like you make $100,000 more than you actually do. You know that most nonprofit fundraisers will stay in a job from 12 to 18 months. Until they leave, voluntarily or otherwise. With at-will employment, if your boss asks you to work over the weekend,what are you going to say, No?
So last year I did a post about looking back, thinking about what has happened, taking stock, and reflecting. This year I ask you to join me in reflecting back on what this year has brought for you. Ask yourself these questions: What’s the big idea of this year? What am I most proud of [...]
This is the blog post where I don’t just show you my successes, but I show you my failures. At least, I show you what I’ve LEARNED from my failures. What Were Some Big Lessons for me in the last two years? The Song Cycles of 2010-2011: How to fail at business by trying [...]
It’s the holidays! Here’s my present to you. 6 questions you need to ask to help get that corporate sponsorship. Why should you care? Because most people don’t ask these questions. Most people have NO IDEA what’s happening when they ask for sponsorship. You just ask, and the money just magically appears in your hand, [...]
Today’s post is for every person reading this blog who is working to help the dead be heard. Whether you’re working at a domestic violence shelter and you work for each woman who is murdered before she can leave for good, or perhaps you’re working at an environmental nonprofit that helps people cut down on [...]
The key point is that the fundamentals of good direct mail copywriting hold true no matter where you are: understand your donor, craft appeals that make your donor the hero, and connect your donor with your beneficiary.
-Jules Brown
You may think I’m the wild truth teller, but I’ve been holding something back from you for years.
HOLD ONTO YOUR HATS!
I’m about to let you know that for all of the stories of corrupt nonprofits, and how it brings the sector down when we focus on them, sometimes we HAVE to focus on them, because justice is NOT BEING SERVED.
